CHICAGO (AP) — Brianna Turner said on social media that her former team, the Indiana Fever, fired a male employee last season for sexual harassment. Turner, who was with Indiana last season but now plays for the Las Vegas Aces, also said Fever players were encouraged not to discuss the firing.
The Fever put out a statement Thursday that didn't directly address Turner's comments.
“Protecting our players and employees and maintaining a respectful, professional workplace is our top priority,” the Fever said. “Our policy is to take concerns seriously, investigate thoroughly, and act promptly when appropriate to protect the people in our organization and ensure everyone is treated with professionalism and respect. Fostering trust and safety in that process means we do not comment on personnel matters involving former employees.”
Turner’s comments were part of a series of posts she made in defense of transgender athletes.
"To date there’s been one out trans player in the league. They caused zero problems,” Turner wrote in the posts on X on Wednesday. “An issue that has caused problems though? Last year on my WNBA team a male staff member was fired for sexual harassment, but we were encouraged to keep quiet about it. That is an issue."
She didn't provide details of the firing.
Turner’s comments came after a former teammate, Fever guard Sophia Cunningham, had also weighed in on the issue of transgender athletes competing in women’s sports.
"I got a lot of negative feedback about me hating trans. And I’m like, ‘I never once said that,’” Cunningham was quoted as saying in a story published this week by ESPN. “I think that I am here to extend love. But I also think with that love is truth, being honest. And I want to protect young girls in a locker room, or young girls in sport who shouldn’t have to go against biological men."
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Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham (8) shoots over Las Vegas Aces guard Chelsea Gray (12) as center A'ja Wilson (22) looks on during the first half of an WNBA basketball game Sunday, July 12, 2026, in Las Vegas. (Steve Marcus/Las Vegas Sun via AP)
GLASGOW, Scotland (AP) — King Charles III took his time before officially opening the 23rd Commonwealth Games in Glasgow after emerging Thursday from the TARDIS of intergalactic adventurer “Doctor Who.”
More than 3,000 athletes from 74 nations and territories will compete across 10 sports and six Para sports in the 11-day event. Charles formally opened the Games in his role as head of the Commonwealth.
The opening ceremony show began with a clip of what organizers called “the world’s most famous police box” from the iconic sci-fi TV series going on a journey around Scotland. After visits to Loch Ness, the Kelpies, and Edinburgh Castle, it stopped to pick up Charles and Queen Camilla at Balmoral Castle.
It then materialized inside the Hydro arena — appearing on an onstage garden — and Charles and Camilla emerged, making their way down a ramp before taking up seats in the royal box.
Charles is not the first British monarch to make a memorable entrance to a major sporting event’s opening ceremony.
In 2012, Queen Elizabeth II famously took part in the opening ceremony of the London Olympics, with a video of her appearing to skydive into the stadium from a helicopter with James Bond actor Daniel Craig, after he escorted her from Buckingham Palace.
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Members of the Australian team reacts as the walk on stage during the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, July 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Performers dance as they illustrate the artisans of Glasgow during the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, July 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)
Britain's King Charles III, left and Queen Camilla wave to the crowd as the step out of the the Dr Who Tardis police box as they arrive at the start of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, July 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Scottish flags are waved by fans as the Scotland team arrives on stage during the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, July 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
Britain's King Charles III, centre, steps out of the the Dr Who Tardis police box as he arrives at the start of the Commonwealth Games opening ceremony in Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday, July 23, 2026. (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
